Born on this day – Scrapper Blackwell:

Scrapper Blackwell

Blues singer

Guitarist

February 21, 1903 – October 7, 1962

Credits:

Albums:

A Blues (2018); ABC Of The Blues Vol 7 (2010); Blue Night Blues (2000); Blues Before Sunrise + Mr. Scrapper's Blues (2014); Blues Night Blue (2019); Kokomo (2021); Penal Farm Blues (2021); Presenting Scrapper Blackwell (1929); Rocks In My Bed (2016); Scrapper Blackwell - Music History (2021); Scrapper Blackwell 1959-1960 (2005); Scrapper Blackwell Vol. 1 (1928-1932) (2005); The Blues Collective -Leroy Carr and Scrapper Blackwell (2023); The Very Best Of (2009); The Virtuoso Guitar Of Scrapper Blackwell (2006); Trouble Blues (2019); Volume 1: "How Long Has That Evening Train Been Gone", CD A (2008); Volume 1: "How Long Has That Evening Train Been Gone", CD B (2008); Volume 1: "How Long Has That Evening Train Been Gone", CD C (2008); Volume 1: "How Long Has That Evening Train Been Gone", CD D (2008).

Songs:

Alabama Women Blues; Back Door Blues; Be-Da-Da-Bum; Blue Day Blues; Blue Night Blues; Blues Before Sunrise; Cold Blooded Murder; D Blues; Down and Out Blues; Down South Blues; Four Day Rider; Goin' Where the Monon Crosses the Yellow Dog; Hard Time Blues; How About Me; How Long Blues No. 1; I Believe I'll Make a Change; I Won't Miss You When You're Gone; Lifeboat Blues; Low Down Dog Blues; Mean Mistreater Mama; My Dream Blues; My Heart Struck Sorrow; My Old Pal; My Old Pal Blues; Naptown Blues; Nobody Knows When You're Down and Out; Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out; Pack Up Her Trunk Blues; Papa's on the House Top; Scrapper Blackwell; Shady Lane; When the Sun Goes Down; Whiskey Man Blues.

Born on this day – Pink Anderson:

Pink Anderson

Blues singer

Guitarist

February 12, 1900 – October 12, 1974

Credits:

Albums:

American Street Songs (1956); Baby I'm Going Away (2019); Ballad & Folk Singer, Vol. 3 (1963); Blues Legend (2011); Carolina Blues Man (1961); Essential Blues Masters (2010); Gospel, Blues And Street Songs (1987); Greasy Greens and a Mess of Blues (2012); Happy Hours (2015); In the Jailhouse Now (2021); Leisure Time (2014); Medicine Show Man (1962); Medicine Show Man, Volume 2 (1962); Pink Anderson: Carolina Medicine Show Hokum and Blues with Baby Tate (1984); The Blues of Pink Anderson: Ballad & Folksinger (1961); Vol..2 - Medicine Show Man (2018); Weeping Willow Blues (2021).

Songs:

Ain't Nobody Home but Me; Baby Please Don't Go; Baby Tate - See What You Done Done; Betty and Dupree; Big House Blues; Bo Weevil; Boweevil; C.C. & O Blues; C.C. And O. Blues; Chicken; Every Day In The Week Blues; Gonna Tip Out Tonight; Greasy Greens; He's in the Jailhouse Now; I Got a Woman 'cross Town; I Got a Woman 'Way Cross Town; I Got Mine; I Will Fly Away; I'm Going to Walk Through the Streets of the City; In the Evening; In the Jailhouse Now; I've Got Mine; John Henry; Meet Me in the Bottom; See That My Grave Is Kept; That's No Way to Do; The Boys of Your Uncle Sam; The Kaiser; The Titanic; Tippin’ Out; Travelin' Man; You Don't Know My Mind.

Television:

The Blues / documentary (1962).

Born on this day – Willie Trice:

Willie Trice

Blues singer

Guitarist

Songwriter

February 10, 1908 – December 11, 1976

Credits:

Album:

Blue and Rag'd (1995).

Songs:

Come on in Here Mama; Goin' to the Country; Good Time Boogie; I Love You, Sweet Baby; I've Had Trouble; My Baby's Ways; New Careless Love Blues; New Diddey Wah Diddey; She's Coming on the C & O; Shine On; Troublesome Mind; Trying to Find My Baby; You Have Mistreated Me.

Born on this day – Floyd Dixon:

Floyd Dixon

Blues singer

Pianist

February 8, 1929 – July 26, 2006

Born on this day – Lonnie Johnson:

Lonnie Johnson

Blues singer

Guitarist

Violinist

Songwriter

February 8, 1899 – June 16, 1970

Born on this day – Casey Bill Weldon:

Casey Bill Weldon

Blues singer

Guitarist

February 2, 1901 – September 28, 1972

Born on this day – Walter Vinson:

Walter Vinson

Blues singer

Guitarist

Songwriter

February 2, 1901 – April 22, 1975

Born on this day – Roosevelt Sykes:

Roosevelt Sykes

Blues singer

Pianist

Songwriter

January 31, 1906 – July 17, 1983

Credits:

Albums:

Barrelhouse Blues (2011); Blues (1961); Blues by Roosevelt "The Honeydripper" Sykes (1995); Blues Masters Vol. 23 - Roosevelt Sykes (2009); Blues Piano and Guitar (2019); Boot That Thing (1929-1941) (2008); Chicago Blues Festival (1970); Chicago Blues Festival '70 (Blues Reference) (2002); Chicago Boogie (2004); Dirty Double Mother (1973); Dirty Mother for You (2013); Double Barreled Boogie (2004); Eight Ball Blues (2007); Face to Face with the Blues (1961); Feel Like Blowing My Horn (1973); Fine And Brown (2008); Gold Mine (1992); Grind It! (1996); Happy Hours (2015); Hard Drivin' Blues (1964); Honeydripper (2015); Is it True 'Bout the Man Roosevelt? (2020); Memphis Blues (1974); Memphis Slim Presents Roosevelt "The Honeydripper" Sykes (2014); Music Is My Business (1996); Night Time Is the Right Time (2019); Raining in My Heart (2000); Roosevelt Sykes "Live" At Webster College 1974 (2014); Roosevelt Sykes Selected Favorites (2006); Roosevelt Sykes Sings the Blues (2006); Roosevelt Sykes the Honey Dripper, Vol. 1: 1934-1942 (Blues Collection Historic Recordings) (1999); Roosevelt Sykes Vol. 10 (1951-1957) (2005); Roosevelt Sykes Vol. 3 (1931-1933) (2005); Roosevelt Sykes Vol. 4 (1934-1936) (2005); Roosevelt Sykes Vol. 5 (1937-1939) (2005); Roosevelt Sykes Vol. 7 (1941-1944) (2005); Roosevelt Sykes Vol. 9 (1947-1951) (2005); Sings the Blues (1998); Slave for Your Love (2021); The Honey Dripper's Ball (1970); The Honeydripper (1962); The Honeydripper's Duke's Mixture (1971); The Original Honeydripper (2013); The Return of Roosevelt Sykes (1960); The Ultimate Jazz Archive (Vol 15) (2010); Wild Side (2020).

Movies and television:

All You Need Is Love (1977); Bandstand (1966); Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music (1993); David Makes Man (2019); Denise Calls Up (1995); En remontant le Mississippi (1973); Good Hair (2009); Last Flag Flying (2017); Long John Baldry: In the Shadow of the Blues (2000); Mafia III (2016); Manchester by the Sea (2016); Mississippi Grind (2015); Mr. Mercedes (2017); Nothing But the Blues (1966); Outcast (2016); Pretend It's a City (2021); Shindig! (1965); The American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1966 - Volume 1 (2003); The American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1966 - Volume 2 (2003); The American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1969 - Volume 3 (2004); The Blues Under the Skin (1973); The Deuce (2018).

Born on this day – Bobby "Blue" Bland:

Bobby “Blue” Bland

Blues singer

Songwriter

January 27, 1930 – June 23, 2013

Credits:

Albums:

After All (1986); Ain't Nothing You Can Do (1964); Andy Russell Romance, Vol. 1 (2008); Blues at Midnight (2003); Blues Masters: The Greatest (2005); Blues You Can Use (1987); Bobby Bland and B. B. King Together Again...Live (1976); Call on Me (2001); Call On Me / That's The Way Love Is (1963); Come Fly With Me (1978); Double Trouble (1995); Dreamer (1974); Farther Up The Road (2008); Further On Up the Road (2011); Get On Down With Bobby Bland (1975); Gold Masters: Bobby Bland, Vol. 2 (2014); Here We Go Again (1990); Here's the Man! (1962); His California Album (1973); Hold It Right There (2023); Hold Me Tenderly (Hall of Fame) (2014); It's My Life, Baby: The Singles - As & Bs, 1951-1960 (2012); Last Night (2008); Lil' Boy Blue (2013); "Live" On Beale Street (1998); Little Boy Blue (2014); Loan A Helping Hand (2015); Long Beach 1983 (1994); Members Only (1985); Memphis Monday Morning (1998); Midnight Run (1989); Portrait of the Blues (1991); R&b Originals (2012); Really The Blues (2017); Reflections in Blue (1977); Rhythm and Blues Originals, Volume 3 (2021); Sad Street (1995); Sometime Tomorrow (2015); Spotlighting the Man (1969); Sunday Morning Love in Concert (2021); The 3d Blues Boys (2013); The Classic Years, Vol. 2 (2021); The One and Only, Vol. 1 (2008); Together for the First Time... Live (1974); Touch of the Blues (1967); Turn on Your Love Light (2017); Two Steps from the Blues - 50 Classic Blues Tracks (2012); Two Steps from the Blues (Blues People - Original Album & Singles - 1951-1962) (2015); Years of Tears (1993); You Got Me (Where You Want Me) (2015); You or None (2021).

Movies and television:

11.22.63 (2016); A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon (1988); American Masters (2015); American Playboy: The Hugh Hefner Story (2017); Austin City Limits (1999); B.B. King: The Life of Riley (2012); Beforeigners (2019); Big George Foreman (2023); Black Lightning (2018); Blues Story (2003); Brown Sugar (2002); Detroit (2017); Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead (2015); Ebony/Jet Showcase (1988); Eileen (2023); Eyes of Laura Mars (1978); Fighting (2009); Fresh Meat (2011); Giri/Haji (2019); Girls (2016); Godfather of Harlem (2021); In Concert (1973); Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown (2014); Mystery Train (1989); Nobody's Fool (2018); Ocean's Twelve (2004); Pink Lightning (1991); Remember the Titans (2000); Rolling Vengeance (1987); Sex Education (2019); Shaft (2019); Skeppsholmen (2003); Soul Train (1973); Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023); Take Me to the River (2014); The 2003 Essence Music Festival (2003); The 56th Annual Grammy Awards (2014); The Butcher (2013); The Fugitive (1993); The Hitman's Bodyguard (2017); The Lincoln Lawyer (2011); The Lloyd Thaxton Show (1965); The Midnight Special (1974); The Simpsons (2021); To Sleep with Anger (1990); True Detective (2015); Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G. (2018); Unsung (2016); Upbeat (1965); Vinyl (2016); You (2021).

Born on this day – Sleepy John Estes:

Sleepy John Estes

Blues singer

Guitarist

Songwriter

January 25, 1899 – June 5, 1977

Credits:

Albums:

A Summer Sky Shines (2015); Beyond Patina Jazz Masters: Sleepy John Estes (2012); Blues At Home 11 (2013); BLUES IS A‐LIVE (1977); Blues Live (1999); Blues Masters Vol. 24 - Sleepy John Estes (2009); Blues Music (2016); Broke and Hungry - Ragged and Dirty, Too (1964); Broke and Hungry (1964); Brownsville Blues (1992); Colours of Music History (2014); Crying Out Loud - Sleepy John Estes Blues Chronicles (2023); Crying the Blues (2015); Drop Down (2018); Drop Down Mama (2013); Drop down mama (2021 Remastered Version) (2022); Electric Sleep (1991); Goin' To Brownsville (1998); I Ain't Gonna Be Worried No More (2011); I Ain't Gonna Be Worried No More 1929-1941 (1992); It's All About Blues Music (2014); Jailhouse Blues (1998); Legendary Country Blues Artists - CD A (2007); Legendary Country Blues Artists - CD B (2007); Liquor Store Blues (2011); Live in Japan with Hammie Nixon (2014); Newport Blues (2002); Numero Uno Blues (2020); On Highway 80 (2008); On the Chicago Blues Scene (1991); Presenting Sleepy John Estes (1930); Rats in My Kitchen (2012); Roots Of The Blues - Sleepy John Estes (2004); Sleepy John Estes 1935-1938 (Blues for Ever) (2003); Sleepy John Estes in Europe (1999); Sleepy John Estes Vol. 2 (1937 - 1941) (2005); Sleepy John Estes, King of Blues (2014); Sleepy John Estes: First Recordings With Lewis & Rachel (2006); Someday Baby Blues (2004); Street Car Blues (2008); Sweet Mama (2000); Tennessee Bluesman (2021); That's What I Need (2014); The Legend of Sleepy John Estes (1962); The Magic Masters (2016); The Ultimate Jazz Archive 13 - Blues (3 Of 4) (2007); Working Man Blues - The Best Of (2009); Working Man's Blues (2007).

Movies and television:

Blues America (2013); Dallas 362 (2003); Jazzorama (1964); Memphis '69 (2019); Nothing But the Blues / TV Movie (1966); Nothing But the Blues: Blues Scene (1967); Playboy After Dark (1969); Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked The World (2017); Shine a Light (2008); Tales from the Loop (2020); The Blues (1962); The Howlin' Wolf Story (2003).

Born on this day – Kip Anderson:

Kip Anderson

Blues singer

Pianist

Songwriter

January 24, 1938 – August 29, 2007

Credits:

Music:

A Dog Don't Wear No Shoes (1992); A Knife and a Fork (1993); Blue Moon / Unchained Melody (1967); Frozen Heart / Abide in Me (1969); I Can't / I'll Get Along (1965); I Could'a Been Sleepin' / He Never Left Me Alone (1989); I Feel Good / I Will Cry (1961); I Get Carried Away / Here I Am, Try Me (1965); I Wanna Be the Only One / Making Tracks (1959); I Wanna Be the Only One / The Home Fires Are Brighter After All (1959); If That Don't Make You Cry / Without a Woman (1966); Jesus Sings with Me (Part 1) / Jesus Sings with Me (Part 2) (1988); Letter From my Darling / Watch You Work it Out (1968); Oh My Linda / 'Til Your Love is Mine (1960); Take It Like a Man / A Knife and a Fork (1967); Tell Her I Love Her / Woman How Do You Make Me Love You Like I Do (1965); That's All I Can Do / I Went Off and Cried (1968); That's When the Crying Begins / I Done You Wrong (1964); You'll Lose a Good Thing / I'm Out of Love (1967); Your Sweetness Is My Weakness / A Dog Don't Wear No Shoes (1992).

Born on this day – Lead Belly:

Lead Belly

Blues singer

Guitarist

January 20, 1888 – December 6, 1949

Born on this day – Jay McShann:

Jay McShann

Blues singer

Pianist

Composer

Bandleader

January 12, 1916 – December 7, 2006

Credits:

Albums:

A Tribute to Fats Waller (1978); After Hours (1982); Airmail Special (1994); Al Casey, Jumpin' with Al (1974); Axel Zwingenberger, Swing the Boogie! (1996); Best of Friends with Al Casey (1982); Blowin' in from K.C. with Joe Thomas (1983); Blue Pianos with Axel Zwingenberger (1991); Claude Williams, Fiddler's Dream (1977); Cold Strange (1977); Confessin' the Blues (1970); Crazy Legs & Friday Strut with Buddy Tate (1977); Duke Robillard, The Acoustic Blues & Roots of (2015); Early Bird with Charlie Parker (1973); Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson, Kidney Stew is Fine (1969); Goin' to Kansas City Blues (1957); Goin' to Kansas City with Duke Robillard (2003); Going to Kansas City (1972); Helen Humes, Helen Comes Back (1973); Helen Humes, On the Sunny Side of the Street (1975); Hootie Blues (2006); Hootie! (2000); Hootie's Jumpin' Blues with Duke Robillard (1997); Jackie Washington, Keeping Out of Mischief (1995); Jim Galloway, Kansas City Nights (1993); Jim Galloway, Thou Swell (1981); Jimmy Witherspoon & Jay McShann (1992); Julia Lee, Tonight's the Night (1982); Jumpin' the Blues with Milt Buckner (1972); Just a Lucky So and So (1984); Just Got Lucky (1993); Kansas City Hustle (1978); Kansas City Joys with Buddy Tate, Paul Quinichette (1976); Kansas City Memories (1955); Kansas City Memories (1973); Kansas City On My Mind (1977); Last of the Whorehouse Piano Players with Ralph Sutton (1980); Last of the Whorehouse Piano Players with Ralph Sutton (1989); Live in France Vol. 2 with Eddie Cleanhead Vinson (1984); McShann's Piano (1967); More Stuff (1985); My Baby with the Black Dress On (1998); Paris All-Star Blues: A Tribute to Charlie Parker (1991); Piano Playhouse (1996); Pressure Cooker (1985); Roll 'em (1987); Saturday Night Function with the Sackville All-Stars (1981); Slim Gaillard, Anytime, Anyplace, Anywhere! (1983); Some Blues (1993); Still Jumpin' the Blues with Duke Robillard, Maria Muldaur (1999); Stride Piano Summit with Dick Hyman, Ralph Sutton (1991); Swingmatism with Don Thompson, Archie Alleyne (1994); T-Bone Walker, Feelin' the Blues (1999); The Band That Jumps the Blues! (1973); The Big Apple Bash (1979); The Early Bird Charlie Parker (1941–1943) (1982); The Last of the Blue Devils (1978); The Man from Muskogee with Claude Williams (1980); The Missouri Connection with John Hicks (1993); Tiny Grimes, Some Groovy Fours (1996); Tiny Grimes, Tiny Grimes (1970); Tuxedo Junction with Don Thompson (1980); Vine Street Boogie (1974); Walter Brown, Confessin' the Blues (1981); What a Wonderful World (1999).

Songs:

After Hours; Ain't Nobody's Business; Blue Devil Jump; Cherokee; Come on Over to My House; Confessin' the Blues; Confessin’ the Blues; Dexter Blues; 'Fore Day Rider; Georgia on My Mind; Get Me on Your Mind; Going To Kansas City; Hands Off; Hold'em Hootie; Hootie Blues; Hot Biscuits; Jumpin' at the Woodside; Just for You; Let It Be Me; McShann's Boogie-Blues; Moten Swing; Mr. Cleanhead Blues; My Chile; Red River Blues; Roll'em; Sepian Bounce; Swingmatism; T'Aint Nobody's Bizness; The Duke and the Brute; Vine Street Boogie; What a Wonderful World; When I Grow Too Old to Dream.

Movies and television:

American Horror Story (2014); American Masters (1989); American Splendor (2003); Better Call Saul (2020); Charlie Parker, Bird Songs (2022); Dave Brubeck: In His Own Sweet Way (2010); Eastwood After Hours: Live at Carnegie Hall (1997); Hanging Up (2000); Independent Lens (2005); Jazz (2001); Jazz Scene at the Ronnie Scott Club (1969–1970); Lovecraft Country (2020); Married Life (2007); Solo Flight: The Genius of Charlie Christian (1992); The Blues (2003); The Last of the Blue Devils (1979); Vine Street Blues (1943).

Born on this day – Mississippi Fred McDowell:

Mississippi Fred McDowell

Blues singer

Songwriter

Guitarist

January 12, 1904 – July 3, 1972

Credits:

Albums:

61 Highway Blues (2011); A Dose Of Double Dynamite (2006); ABC Of The Blues Vol 33 (2010); Amazing Grace & My Home Is in the Delta (2013); Amazing Grace (1966); Ann Arbor, 1971 (Live) (2021); Best Live Country Blues (2022); Blues Masters: Mississippi Fred McDowell (1969); Come and Found You Gone: The Bill Ferris Recordings (2010); Downhome Blues, Vol. 1 (2009); Eight Years Ramblin' (1972); Fred Mcdowell (2014); Fred McDowell, Vol. 2 (1966); Going Down to the River - Mississippi Fred McDowell 1959 (2020); Heritage Of The Blues: Mississippi Fred McDowell (2003); I Do Not Play No Rock 'n' Roll (1969); Jesus On The Mainline (2023); Les pionniers du Blues, Vol. 15 : Mississippi Fred McDowell (2019); Levee Camp Blues (1980); Live at the Gaslight: Set One (2000); Live at the Gaslight: Set Two (2000); Live in New York (1972); Long Way From Home (1966); Long Way From Home: The Blues of Fred McDowell (1990); Mama Says I'm Crazy (2002); Mighty Mississippi (Rerecorded) (2009); Mississippi Delta Blues (1964); Mississippi Fred McDowell (1995); Mississippi Fred McDowell in London (Volume Two) (1970); Mojo Hand: Previously Unreleased (2022); Ole Miss Blues (2022);Portraits: The First Recordings (1997); Sail On, Little Girl, Sail On (2012); Shake 'Em on Down (2015); Shake 'Em On Down: Live In NYC (2016); Standing At The Burying Ground (1996); The Alan Lomax Recordings (2011); The Best of Mississippi Fred Mcdowell (2001); The Complete Friends of Old Time Music Concert (Live) (2024); The Essential Fred McDowell (Live) (2022); The First Recordings (1997); The Man from Como, Miss (2020); The Train I Ride (1993); This Ain't No Rock n' Roll (1995); Timeless Blues: Mississippi Fred McDowell (2011); You Ain't Gonna Worry My Life Anymore (2010); You Gotta Move (1989).

Songs:

61 Highway; Baby Please Don't Go; Como; Do My Baby Ever Think of Me; Everybody's Down on Me; Fred's Rambling Blues; Frisco Line; Get Right Church; Goin’ Down to the River; Going Away - Won't Be Gone Long; Going Down the River; Gravel Road Blues; Highway 61; I Heard Somebody Call; I Looked at the Sun; Jesus Is On The Main Line; John Henry; Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning; Levee Camp Blues; Meet Me Down in Froggy Bottom; My Baby; My Bottleneck; Red Cross Store Blues; Shake 'em on Down; That's Alright; What's the Matter Now?; When I Lay My Burden Down; When the Saints Go Marching In; Write Me a Few Lines; Write Me a Few of Your Lines; You Got to Move.

Born on this day – Tampa Red:

Tampa Red

Blues singer

Guitarist

Songwriter

January 8, 1903 – March 19, 1981

Credits:

Albums:

Beyond Patina Jazz Masters: Tampa Red (2011); Blues Legends: Tampa Red (2012); Blues Masters Vol. 26 - Tampa Red (2009); Bottleneck Guitar 1928-1937 (1974); Chicago Moan (2012); Chicago Moan Blues - Tampa Red in the 20's, Vol. 1 (2020); Don't Jive Me (1962); Don't Tampa With The Blues (1961 / 2012); Don't Tampa With The Blues (Remastered 1992) (1960); Echoes from the South With Tampa Red & Big Maceo (2009); Essential Blues (2012); Friendless Gal Blues (2016); Guitar Blues (2011); His Blues (2016); It Hurts Me Too (1995, EP); Mother Of The Blues, CD E (2007); Music Making In Chicago 1928-1935 (2012); Presenting Tampa Red (1928); Roots Of The Blues - Tampa Red (2004); Single String Slide (2020); So Far So Good (2010); Spotlight on Tampa Red (2022); Sugar Mama Blues (2009); Tampa Red - Music History (2021); Tampa Red - Volume 1 (MP3 Album) (2012); Tampa Red - Volume 2 (MP3 Album) (2012); Tampa Red The Guitar Wizard (1994); Tampa Red Vol. 10 1938-1939 (2005); Tampa Red Vol. 11 1939-1940 (2005); Tampa Red Vol. 12 1941-1945 (2005); Tampa Red Vol. 14 1949-1951 (2005); Tampa Red Vol. 15 1951-1953 (2005); Tampa Red Vol. 2 (1929) (2005); Tampa Red Vol. 3 (1929 - 1930) (2005); Tampa Red Vol. 4 (1930 - 1931) (2005); Tampa Red Vol. 5 (1931 - 1934) (2005); Tampa Red Vol. 7 1935-1936 (2005); Tampa Red Vol. 8 1936-1937 (2005); Tampa Red Vol. 9 1937-1938 (2005); Tampa Red:1931-1946: Slide Guitar Wizard, Chicago (1997); The Bluebird Recordings 1934-1936 (1997); The Bluebird Recordings, 1936-1938 (1997); The Blues Collective - Tampa Red (2023); Through Train Blues (2012); Travel On (2018); Uncle Bud - Selected Recordings (2009); Voice of the Blues (2015); Worried Life (2018); You Can't Get That Stuff No More (2008).

Songs:

1950 Blues; Anna Lou Blues; Beedle Um Bum; Black Eye Blues; Boogie Woogie Dance; But I Forgive You; Crying Won’t Help You; Deep Moaning Blues: 1; Delta Woman Blues; Denver Blues; Detroit Blues; Don't You Lie to Me; Green and Lucky Blues; Grievin' and Worryin' Blues; I'm Gonna Get High; It Hurts Me Too; It's Tight Like That; Kingfish Blues; Let Me Play with Your Poodle; Love Her With a Feelin'; Love With a Feeling; Lula Mae; Mean Mistreater Blues; No Matter How She Done It; Seminole Blues; She's Love Crazy; Sugar Mama Blues No. 1; Things 'Bout Coming My Way; Western Bound Blues; When Things Go Wrong with You; You Can't Get That Stuff No More; You Missed a Good Man.

Movies and television:

Baseball (1994); Honeydripper (2007); In Session: Stevie Ray Vaughan/Albert King (1983); Last Man Standing (1996); Music and Lyrics (2007); Tales from the Loop (2020); The Rose (1979).

Born on this day – Edith North Johnson:

Edith North Johnson

Blues singer

Pianist

Songwriter

January 2, 1903 – February 28, 1988

Credits:

Albums:

Barrelhouse Piano & Classic Blues (1984); The Blues in St. Louis, Vol. 2: Henry Brown and Edith Johnson: Barrelhouse Piano and Classic Blues (1984); Voice Throwin' Blues (2022).

Songs:

Can't Make Another Day; Drive My Baby Slow; Eight Hour Woman; Good Chib Blues; Honey Dripper Blues; Honey Dripper Blues: No. 2; Little Drops of Water; Lovin That Man; Lovin' That Man; Lovin’ That Man Blues; Nickel's Worth of Liver Blues: No. 2; Nickel's Worth Of River Blues; Nickle's Worth of Liver Blues; That's My Man; You Ain't No Good Blues; You Know That Ain't Right.

Born on this day – J. D. Short:

J. D. Short

Blues singer

Guitarist

Harmonicist

December 26, 1902 – October 21, 1962

Credits:

Albums:

Blues from the Mississippi Delta, with Son House (1963); Legacy of the Blues Vol. 8 (1973); Stavin' Chain Blues, with Big Joe Williams (1961).

Television:

The Blues (1962).

Born on this day – Lil Green:

Lil Green

Blues singer

Songwriter

December 22, 1901 – April 14, 1954

Credits:

Albums:

1940-1941 (2008); 1942-1946 (2008); 1947-1951 (2008); Blues & Rhythm Series: The Chronological Lil Green 1940-1941 (2003); Give Your Mama One Smile (2023); Greens Got The Blues (2020); Instinctively the Blues - Lil Green (2020); Lil Green (2016); Love In The Dark (2023); No Stranger to Trouble (2015); Romance In The Dark (1971); Romance In The Dark (Original Recordings 1940 - 1944) (2015); The Blues Collective - Lil Green (2023); The Blues Mama (2019); The Very Best Of (2010); Why Don't You Do Right? 1940-1942 (Remastered Historical Recordings) (2006).

Songs:

Aggravatin' Papa; Because I Love My Daddy So; Cherry Tree Blues; Country Boy Blues; Give your mama one smile; Hello Babe; How Can I Go On?; How Come You Do Me Like You Do; I Gotta Have It; I Have a Place to Go; I Want A Man; I Won't Sell My Love; If I'm a Fool; If You Want to Share Your Love; I'm going to start a racket; I'm Wasting My Time on You; Just Rockin'; Keep Your Hand on Your Heart; Knockin' Myself Out; Last Go Round Blues; Let's Be Friends; My Mellow Man; No, Baby, Nobody but You; Outside Of That; Romance in the Dark; Take Me Back To Little Rock; What Have I Done; What's The Matter With Love?; Why Don't You Do Right; Why Don'y You Do It Right; You're Just Full of Jive; You've Been A Good Old Wagon.

Born on this day – B.K. Turner:

B.K. Turner

Blues singer

Guitarist

December 21, 1905 – November 7, 1972

Credits:

Albums:

I'm the Boss Card in Your Hand (compilation, Arhoolie, 1992); The Black Ace: BK Turner and His Steel Guitar (studio album, Arhoolie, 1960).

Songs:

Beer Drinkin`Woman; Black Ace; Evil Woman; Hitch Hiking Woman; I Am the Black Ace; Interview; Your Legs Too Little.

Born on this day – Peetie Wheatstraw:

Peetie Wheatstraw

Blues singer

Guitarist

Pianist

December 21, 1902 – December 21, 1941

Credits:

Songs:

Ain’t It a Pity and a Shame; Blues At My Door; C and A Blues; Chicago Mill Blues; Crazy With the Blues; Devil’s Son‐In‐Law; Don’t Feel Welcome Blues; Drinking Man Blues; Four O'Clock in the Morning; Gangster Blues; Gangster’s Blues; Good Whiskey Blues; Hog-Love Blues; I'm A Little Piece Of Leather; Long Time Ago Blues; Midnight Blues; More Good Whiskey Blues; Packin' Up Blues; Pete Wheatstraw; Police Station Blues; Saturday Night Blues; Shack Bully Stomp; Six Weeks Old Blues; So Long Blues; Strange Man Blues; Suicide Blues; Sweet Home Blues; Tennessee Peaches Blues; The Break I'm Getting'; The Rising Sun Blues; Working on the Project; You Can't Stop Me from Drinking.

Albums:

ABC Of The Blues Vol 48 (2010); Beyond Patina Jazz Masters: Peetie Wheatstraw (2012); Blues Legend 1934-1941 (2011); Blues Legends: Peetie Wheatstraw (2014); Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order, Vol. 1: 1930-1932 (date?); Crazy With The Blues (2007); Macho Persona (2015); Peetie Wheatstraw Vol. 1 1930-1932 (2005); Peetie Wheatstraw Vol. 2 1934-1935 (2005); Peetie Wheatstraw Vol. 3 1935-1936 (2005); Peetie Wheatstraw Vol. 4 1936-1937 (2005); Peetie Wheatstraw Vol. 5 1937-1938 (2005); Peetie Wheatstraw Vol. 6 1938-1940 (2005); Peetie Wheatstraw Vol. 7 1940-1941 (2005); Saint Louis - Chicago - New York 1931-1941 (The Blues) (1996); This Is the Blues, Vol. 8 (Mono Version) (1962, EP).

Recommended reading:

The Devil's son-in-law: The story of Peetie Wheatstraw and his songs

By Paul Garon.

Paperback.

Published 1971.

Published by Studio Vista.

ISBN 13: 9780289702116

ISBN 10: 0289702119

ASIN: 0289702119

Description:

Blue-singer, songwriter, piano and guitar player, William Bunch (1902-1941) was well-known as Peetie Wheatstraw, the Devil's Son-in-Law and the High Sheriff from Hell. Long recognized by connoisseurs as one of the most influential blues people of all time, his life and work are little known to the broad public. Blues scholar Paul Garon's important and abundantly illustrated study - drawing on his own extensive interviews with Wheatstraw's relatives, and fellow musicians - brings the exciting Whatstraw saga to life at last. With insight and imagination, Garon explores Peetie Wheatstraw's crucial role not only in blues history, but also in African American urban mythology, and - via a penetrating analysis of song lyrics - his appreciable contributions to blues poetry and to vernacular surrealism. Originally published in the UK in 1971, this substantially revised and expanded edition includes a mass of new information and images, as well as an updated bibliography, discography and index. Also included is a 24-track CD portraying Peetie at his best, with a bonus track by Harmon Ray, the previously unissued Xmas Blues!